Franz Jagerstatter: Episode One
The Saints
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🗓️ 28 July 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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🗺️ Franz Jagerstatter - Episode One: All Aboard
Austria. 1936. As Nazi soldiers descend on the tiny rural village of Saint Radegund, raising money and signing up recruits, a young, bad-boy farmer returns from years in exile, and gets their attention for all the wrong reasons. Now, can this reformed local troublemaker finally find happiness and stability in his hometown, or will trouble find him all over again? This is the story of Franz Jägerstätter.
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Franz’s story tells the true power of every life to spread God’s love to others. Franz offers his own prison meal to a starving inmate, a grace-filled gesture amid cruelty. Fani’s unwavering faith in her husband, even when the world despises him, radiates hope. Even as two people against their entire world, Franz and Fani remain close to God through each other, giving a true example of sacramental marriage.
This series contains moments of danger and intensity, including raised voices. It includes depictions of beatings, imprisonment, and execution by guillotine. Characters undergo interrogation, moral coercion, and physical abuse. Nazi ideology is discussed and condemned. A priest is arrested during Mass, and several scenes portray emotional distress, especially within a young family facing separation and death.
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| 0:00.0 | Austria, 1936. |
| 0:05.0 | As Nazi soldiers descend on the rural village of St. Rodigan, raising money and signing up recruits, |
| 0:13.0 | a young bad boy farmer returns from years in exile and gets their attention for all the wrong reasons. |
| 0:22.3 | Now, can this reformed local troublemaker finally find happiness and stability in his hometown? |
| 0:29.2 | Or will trouble find him all over again? |
| 0:33.5 | This is the story of Franz Yagerstater. |
| 0:40.8 | This is the story of Franz Jagerstater. The Saints. |
| 0:42.6 | Adventures of Faith and Courage. |
| 0:45.7 | Franz Jagerstader. |
| 0:47.7 | Episode 1. |
| 0:49.1 | All aboard. |
| 0:51.0 | Listen to all the episodes and discover new shows at the saintspodcast.com. |
| 0:56.4 | Sponsored by Colby Academy. |
| 0:58.9 | Colby's expert advisors and teachers are with you every step of the way to give your children a truly personalized Catholic home education. |
| 1:06.9 | Learn more at the saintspodcast.com slash Colby. |
| 1:18.2 | Okay. Learn more at the Saintspodcast.com slash Colby. Hitler, Juergen, support Nazi youth in the future of Austria. |
| 1:23.4 | Donkies, sir. |
| 1:24.1 | And you, miss, will you invest in Austria's future? |
| 1:28.5 | You're new in town. |
| 1:30.1 | Lieutenant Carl Friedrich. |
| 1:31.9 | Fanny Schwenninger. |
| 1:32.8 | What a pretty girl like you supports the expanding National Socialist Party? |
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